Park Tools

Cultural Landscape Report

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE REPORT
Platt Historic District

CHICKASAW NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, OKLAHOMA

by
Heidi Hohmann
Katarzyna Grala

2004
Iowa State University
National Park Service

A cultural landscape is defined as "a geographic area, including both cultural and natural resources and the wildlife or domestic animals therein, associated with a historic event, activity, or person or exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values."

Cultural landscapes can range from thousands of acres of rural tracts of land to a small homestead with a front yard of less than one acre. Like historic buildings and districts, these special places reveal aspects of our country's origins and development through their form and features and the ways they were used. Cultural landscapes also reveal much about our evolving relationship with the natural world.